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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "E.U LOTTERY NETHERLANDS" <euresult2ftg@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:33:34 +0400
Subject: NEW YEAR AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULT !!!

NEW YEAR AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULT !!!
E.U LOTTO AWARD
LUCKY NUMBER: 44/42/09-ANL/06
TICKET NUMBER: 67-84-501
YOUR REF NUMBER: AD/GU888/68/06.NH
OUR CONTACT E-MAIL: euresult1@aol.com

FINAL NOTICE OF WINNING

We are delighted to notify you of the result of the free lotto E.U programs
held on 20th of
February, 2007 your email address were attached to one of the ten winning
Ticket numbers
(67-84-501) - with Game (Number 7387).

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 750,000.00 euro
(Seven
Hundred And Fifty Thousand Euro)

CONGRATULATIONS!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system from our
sponsors databases,
including over 5,000 companies and 20,000 individual E-mail addresses and
names submitted by
our agents drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, North And South America,
Oceania and around the
world. To file for your urgent claim, please contact our affiliate agent.

CONTACT AGENT : MRS. LUCY HANS
E.U LOTTO AWARD AGENCY
ROTTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
REPLY E-MAIL: euresult1@aol.com

It is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and to
minimize identification difficulties
advise you to keep this information confidential until your claim is
processed successfully and to
avoid unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 2 weeks upon receipt of this
notification, after this date all
unclaimed winnings will be null and void.

In Order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote
your ticket number and
game numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change
of address do inform
our agents as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Yours faithfully
Mrs. Tracy Damwijk
Award Centre Co-coordinator
E.U Lottery International office

NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You are to contact your claims officer
immediately via the provided
email address. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please remember to quote
your reference number in every one of your correspondences.

Anti-fraud resources:

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